Old Guildhall
OLD GUILDHALL, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177807
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD GUILDHALL, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177807
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD GUILDHALL, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD GUILDHALL, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newport
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74605 18892
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/09/2012
SJ 7418 NE 2/7
5362
28.4.52
NEWPORT
HIGH STREET
(West Side)
Nos 1 and 3 (Old Guildhall)
II*
Possible Guildhall, later in domestic use, now a shop pair (July 1986). Circa
1400, extended to the north in the later C16, with gable added to the north end
of the street front sometime in the C19. Exposed timber-framing with painted brick
infilling; framing with close-studding and wind-braces. Plain tiled roof with
end stack and ridge stack to right of centre on lateral ridge. C19 ornamental
bargeboards on left crosswing gable. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 4 windows
on first floor, the outer ones in small square gabled oriel-bays, the inner pair
glazing bar sashes. Central C19 bay on ground floor, canted with glazing bars;
shopfronts on ground floor of crosswings, both with central entrances. Doorway
to right of central ground-floor bay. Bressumer over ground floor of central recess
carved with guilloche and other decoration, and 'PW' and 'William 1615 Grecari'
(probably not related to any building date). Interior: the crosswing to the left
contains evidence that it was built as an open-hall, gable-end to the street.
It originally consisted of four bays, the two end bays floored and the two central
bays open to the roof. Central truss shows evidence of cusped arch-braces. Two
rows of purlins to roof, one close to the apex of the roof, the purlins and principal
rafters chamfered and stopped. Cusped and pierced windbraces between rows of
purlins. This building is listed II* for its rarity as an example of a former
open hall with cusped arch-braced and wind-braced roof, especially considering
its easterly position.
Listing NGR: SJ7460518892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255362
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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